I am not a shopper, y’all. I’m going to spend the day being thankful for what I have instead of what I want. It helps that I don’t have children. I have been sleeping SO MUCH for the past few days. I gather that my body is catching up on the insomniac nights that I…

From my church newsletter, a very good idea! If you know any woman currently undergoing cancer treatment, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that provides FREE housecleaning – once per month for 4 months while she is in treatment. All she has to do is sign up and have…

Ugh. I will not address yesterday, at all. I’m going to plant my head firmly in the sand and pray silently. I do plan to blog my Journalfest trip. Yes, I know that I said that about Charleston and then I didn’t. Who knows, I might do both. I mainly took a lot of nature…

I am living proof that stress and negativity can make you sick. I try to be a duck, but I tend to be a sponge. Usually by the time I realize that I need to protect my open, welcoming pores, I have absorbed the damaging energy. The effects generally show up days later. I seem…

A quick lunchtime post to say that I am in better spirits, despite the fact that my wonderful friend Masoud Awartani died yesterday. He and his family have many dear friends and he will be sorely missed in our community. He had been in bad health for three years, but in the end it was…

So hot that the rear view mirror glue melted and I found it dangling from the ceiling in the “new” car yesterday afternoon. It was too hot to touch. I should have expected something like this since my check cleared and the title arrived in the mail yesterday! I’ll go to the chiropractor this afternoon,…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That…

Blog went down for a few days. I did a software upgrade and so far it’s stable. It’s not up to the latest upgrade (there was a problem with that) so it might happen again. I plan to get it up to snuff at some point this summer, and I might even work on changing…

A short update for those who keep up with me here instead of Facebook: Diagnosis: De Quervain’s tenosynovitis and Dupuytren’s disease, which runs heavily on both sides of my family. I have custom-made hard splints to wear at night and for times when I need extra support, and soft braces to wear at other times.…

Hello from beautiful Moses Cone hospital in the heart of Greensboro, North Carolina! I’m here today with my marvelous husband, who had a mild heart attack on Tuesday night. He is doing very well and hopefully he will be released tomorrow. We are fortunate in many ways. First, that he was home with me when…